Sutter-Yuba County Biographies
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EDWIN A. HUNN
Prominent among the experienced, enterprising and progressive contractors to
whom Northern California owes much of its material development is Edwin A. Hunn,
the leading brick contractor of Yuba and Sutter Counties. A native of Illinois,
he was born at Chicago on May 7, 1890; and he was two months old when his
parents brought him to San Francisco, in May of that year. There he was reared
to manhood, and there he received his education; and his first work was that of
an errand boy in the shoe-store of Koenig Company. Later, he was in the employ
of the Crane Company, and the Levi Strauss Wholesale Company, and after the
great fire of 1906, he learned the trade of the brick mason with Harry Drake,
one of the leading brick contractors in San Francisco, and there worked at that
trade, helping to rebuild the stricken city.
In 1919, he came to Sutter County and bought a ranch of ten acres, a part of the
Littlejohn Tract on the Franklin road, which he planted to peaches; and he has
done practically all the brick contract work in Yuba and Sutter Counties since
he came here. His work has been of the highest order, and has included the
Virden Cannery, the Marysville Post Office, the Matthews Garage, the
Wicks-Werley Hotel, the Baldwin residence in Yuba City, the Chase residence in
Marysville, and many other attractive edifices. He has also installed
fireplaces and tiling in many of the best houses. Mr. Hunn was one of the
organizers and builders-up of the Marysville Brick Company, serving as manager
of the company the first year, until the plant was completed and in good working
order; and he is still a member of the board of directors. He also showed his
public spirit by subscribing for stock in the new Marysville Hotel Company. Mr.
Hunn is one of the enthusiastic �boosters� for the twin counties. He has great
faith in their future, and claims that Marysville has all the advantages
necessary to become a large city. He belongs to the Chamber of Commerce,
Marysville Builders� Exchange, and Marysville Lions� Club.
In San Francisco, on September 30, 1916, Mr. Hunn was married to Miss Elizabeth
Harnack, a popular lady of San Francisco; and their fortunate union has been
blessed with one daughter, Beth Bernice, also born in the bay city. Mr. Hunn is
a Mason, a member of Enterprise Lodge No. 70, F. & A.M., Yuba City.
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p 699